Activist Artist Call for Entries

From Justseeds:

Each year the Bread and Roses Cultural Project of 1199SEIU produces a Social Justice calendar. The calendar includes quotes and images that relate to the experience of being a part of the Labor Movement. The calendar is a celebration of working class culture. We are looking for artists to include in the calendar and possibly in other Labor Movement projects. Artists included in the calendar receive $1200 for the reproduction rights of their work. The work will appear in the calendar and possibly in posters, note cards, and other products. The artist will be invited to include work in the calendar show at the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center in NYC. This show will include an opening and media attention.

• Bread and Roses is looking for work about immigration and the diversity of the new American workforce.

• Bread and Roses is looking for work that is inclusive and celebrates working class culture. Our aim is to build and support a wide-ranging Labor Movement.

• Bread and Roses is looking for work that is beautiful and not didactic.

• Each image in the calendar is matched with a quote. Some of the quotes used in the past have been:
“WE MAKE THE ROAD BY WALKING” – ANTONIO MACHADO
“GO WHERE THERE IS SILENCE AND SAY SOMETHING” –AMY GOODMAN
“IT STARTS WITH THE HEART AND RADIATES OUT” – CESAR CHAVEZ
“OUR COUNTRIES ARE LINKED TO ONE ANOTHER THROUGH OUR SHARED HUMANITY” –AUNG SAN SUU KYI
“IF YOU HAVE COME TO HELP ME, YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME. BUT IF YOU HAVE COME BECAUSE YOUR LIBERATION IS BOUND UP WITH MINE, LET US WALK TOGETHER.” –LILLA WATSON
“THE PEACE I AM THINKING OF IS THE DANCE OF AN OPEN MIND WHEN IT ENGAGES ANOTHER EQUALLY OPEN ONE” –TONI MORRISON

• Please send examples of work to Zoeann.Murph [at] gmail.com or mail examples to:
Zoeann Murphy
Troy Workforce Development Center
24 Fourth Street
Troy, NY 12180

The calendar is produced by The Bread and Roses Cultural Project of 1199SEIU and the SEIU Greenhouse Program. SEIU stands for the Service Employees International Union. These two non-profits have joined to create a national arts program because art plays a critical part in building a renewed and dynamic labor movement - one richly enhanced by the heart and soul that art provides. For more information about Bread and Roses check out www.bread-and-roses.com.